Bomber kills 10 in central Iraq

A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle rigged with explosives at a police checkpoint in central Iraq on Monday, killing 10 people, an officer and a medical source said. The blast, which hit the Suweirah area, south of Baghdad, also wounded 35 people. The attack came a day after violence in Iraq, including a suicide bombing at a university in Baghdad, killed at least 16 people. The violence comes less than 10 days before the April 30 parliamentary election and will be a major test for security forces. It will be the first parliamentary election since American troops quit Iraq at the end of 2011, according to AFP.